File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2002/postcolonial.0204, message 177


From: "Richard Knox" <knox-AT-scvnet.com>
Subject: RE: Islamist textbooks currently published by the US
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:05:46 -0700


Yes - but that was in the past. The instant allegation is that we are
currently printing the same books with the same text - merely having changed
the pictures from weapons to fruit.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
[mailto:owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of saeed
urrehman
Sent: 10 April, 2002 8:29 AM
To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Subject: RE: Islamist textbooks currently published by the US


Well, there was a time when the Afghan Mujahedeen were invited to the White
House and compared to the founding fathers of America in public as heroes
who were ensuring the continuity of America (Eqbal Ahmed talked about this
incident in his lecture "Terrorism: Theirs vs. Ours.").

I have also heard some stories of some top gun American politician
addressed the Mujahedeen in Aghanistan, holding a copy of the Quran in one
hand and an AK47 in the other - as two symbols of freedom, dignity and
emancipation.

So probably American politicos also took upon themselves the task of
spreading militant Islam. No wonder everybody is talking about "blowback"
and "chickens coming home to roost" and other harsh things.

The bitterest thing about this whole Afghan saga is the way guns and
militancy spread all over Pakistan and Afghanistan. The rise of jehadi
madrassahs, the combination of corruption and Islamization of the Zia ul
Haq era. the Talibenization of the army and secret services of Pakistan, as
if they were very pleasant before. The legalization of the Hudood
Ordinances. Persecution of non-Muslim minorities in Pakistan and
Afghanistan. These were some of the effects of the great game between
capitalism and communism. As they say in Urdu, when elephants fight no one
counts how many ants are trampled to death. We were third world ants, even
Allah did not seem to care much.



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